How Does Boker Do This Handle Wrap?

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E.K.Tryon

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I like the looks of the combination Micarta and wrapped handle on this Boker Bender, Fixed Blade knife. How do they start the wrap? A series of clove hitches would do with a few drops of glue but you can't see the back side of the handle in this photo.

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Instead of clicking on the image which triggers the log in screen, simply right click the image, select 'copy' and paste image into a Word document. then put the cursor over the image in your doc, left click and it should place a border around the image with little dots in the corners, put your cursor over a dot, the cursor arrow turns into a double headed arrow, left click and drag the corner to expand the size of the image. as it gets larger, the image becomes more grainy and loses definition.

The two most important images are the two right most of four or five images. the first of the two shows the scales off the blade and the holes in the tang. The upper scale has a recess milled/cast/etc. into the interior face of the scale. The other scale does not have the same recesses. I think one end of the cord is knotted, fed through a hole on the offside, the loose tail is cut off with a hot knife and the knot is melted just enough to deform and lock into a hole. This provides the ability to pull the offside scale up tight to the scale. the cord wrap provides the tension to hold the scales to the tang.

The second of the two photos is merely a close up of the interior of the scale with the recesses.

It also appears there are two pins in the forward and aft portions of the scales that fit into pre-drilled holes in the tang, 'hidden pins' if you will.

And finally, I think the rat tail lanyard in the above photos is simply the remainder of the cord wrap that enters a hole in the scale and fed out the back of the handle. Perhaps there is something akin to a cord-loc, i.e., once tension is on the cord, it can not be pulled back within the handle thereby ensuring the handles stay on the tang. The scales may be 'secured' to the tang by pulling the rat tail hard, thus removing the slack in the cordage. Of course I could be wrong. Just guessin'.
 
jorasco312 said:
Instead of clicking on the image which triggers the log in screen, simply right click the image, select 'copy' and paste image into a Word document. then put the cursor over the image in your doc, left click and it should place a border around the image with little dots in the corners, put your cursor over a dot, the cursor arrow turns into a double headed arrow, left click and drag the corner to expand the size of the image. as it gets larger, the image becomes more grainy and loses definition.
Click to expand...

Or in Firefox, right click and select 'view image'. Then press ctrl + 'plus sign' and it will enlarge the image. IE does the same thing but you have to go to the image properties to get the URL for the image.
 
Everything I try all I get is the 102x90 thumbnail which won't expand enough to see any detail.
 
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